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Probably just missing a stripslashes call to the username. I'll se about fixing it..

This is what I got in the email when I received a PM:

"Hello mo\' ron,

You have received a new private message to your account on "MacAddict Forums X" and you have requested that you be notified on this event. You can view your new message by clicking on the following link..."

Notice the first line, how it spelled my name... it registered a single quote as "\'" which it isn't suppose to do...

It could be a UNIX thing. The "\" character is used to say "Hey, don't treat the following character as anything special". You'll notice this if you go into the Terminal and use tab completion after typing the first few letters of a file with spaces in its name--each space is preceded by the "\" character. (Has anyone with spaces in their names noticed the same thing?)

The single quote character has some significance in the command line (I'm not savvy enough to know off the top of my head exactly what), so it should be safe to assume that that's where it's coming from. Why it should choose to show up at this point...who knows?

Yeah, I know the slash character's significance in *nix and programming, but I don't see why it has to be displayed like that in an email... The single quote though is actually in my name...

Yes, I know it's a trivial problem, as indicated in the title of this thread... 

Ahh, sorry about that...I always feel dumb after I explain something to someone who knows more about it than I do